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Sitting down too much is doing more harm to your body than you can imagine

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Re: Sitting down too much is doing more harm to your body than you can imagine

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Post by oDot »

aswanson wrote: post #68
shadowmint wrote: post #53

> When you need to ask a colleague something, walk up to his/her desk instead of dropping a message 'Did you get that email I sent you?' Ahhhhhh~ No. Please don't. There's plenty of good advice on this article, but be careful that the things that you do for yourself don't negatively impact other people ; that's not be healthy, its being thoughtless and selfish.

It never ceases to amaze me how much others think they entitled to your time while working. They'll start conversations when all nonverbal signals show you are trying to get something done. Im at the point where I am going to be forced to be outright rude, which is not easy for me, just to be able to work undisturbed.

Being upfront is not necessarily being rude, and is much easier on all parties involved.

Re: Sitting down too much is doing more harm to your body than you can imagine

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Post by eugeneionesco »

rubber_duck wrote: post #65
DigitalSea wrote: post #50

In our office we started a lunchtime walk. We eat our lunch and whoever wants to participate, we head out for a 30 minute walk. It might not be enough, but it's better than the nothing before.

Walking is not time efficient, you're better off doing 10 mins of HIIT than an hour of walking.

Yes but how many places have the infrastucture to do HIIT? Come on, let's be serious here...

Re: Sitting down too much is doing more harm to your body than you can imagine

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Post by jgorn »

rubber_duck wrote: post #65
DigitalSea wrote: post #50

In our office we started a lunchtime walk. We eat our lunch and whoever wants to participate, we head out for a 30 minute walk. It might not be enough, but it's better than the nothing before.

Walking is not time efficient, you're better off doing 10 mins of HIIT than an hour of walking.

If I do HIIT, I'll definitely need a shower which takes time and resources. A 30 min walk? Not as much.

Sometimes the practical solution isn't the most efficient.

Re: Sitting down too much is doing more harm to your body than you can imagine

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Post by erl »

eugeneionesco wrote: post #72
rubber_duck wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Walking is not time efficient, you're better off doing 10 mins of HIIT than an hour of walking.

Yes but how many places have the infrastucture to do HIIT? Come on, let's be serious here...

You can easily do HIIT with minimal infrastructure. Burpees and jumping squats for example will get your pulse up in no time.

It will likely require a shower afterwards though which might pose a problem.

Re: Sitting down too much is doing more harm to your body than you can imagine

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Post by laythea »

aswanson wrote: post #68
shadowmint wrote: post #53

> When you need to ask a colleague something, walk up to his/her desk instead of dropping a message 'Did you get that email I sent you?' Ahhhhhh~ No. Please don't. There's plenty of good advice on this article, but be careful that the things that you do for yourself don't negatively impact other people ; that's not be healthy, its being thoughtless and selfish.

It never ceases to amaze me how much others think they entitled to your time while working. They'll start conversations when all nonverbal signals show you are trying to get something done. Im at the point where I am going to be forced to be outright rude, which is not easy for me, just to be able to work undisturbed.

This holds up to a point, but if your role is so demanding that you cannot hold a conversation (presuming a work conversation but also applies to social - up to a point obviously), then your either not very good at your job or your employer sets unrealistic expectations, or your good and the employer is realistic but you just want to get ahead.

I've worked with people that are a clamshell. It's not a very nice environment. Nobody in a company works "on an island".

Re: Sitting down too much is doing more harm to your body than you can imagine

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Post by [deleted] »

laythea wrote: post #76
aswanson wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It never ceases to amaze me how much others think they entitled to your time while working. They'll start conversations when all nonverbal signals show you are trying to get something done. Im at the point where I am going to be forced to be outright rude, which is not easy for me, just to be able to work undisturbed.

This holds up to a point, but if your role is so demanding that you cannot hold a conversation (presuming a work conversation but also applies to social - up to a point obviously), then your either not very good at your job or your employer sets unrealistic expectations, or your good and the employer is realistic but you just want to get ahead. I've worked with people that are a clamshell. It's not a very nice enviro…

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Re: Sitting down too much is doing more harm to your body than you can imagine

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Post by arcticfox »

ruleordie wrote: post #64

> Anyways, it’s not that complex to tackle this. A few changes in your habits should do the trick. This is complete garbage. The fact is, there is nothing you do to do 100% reverse the effects of sitting all day. You can maybe improve things by 20% or something like that. Progressive people keep hoping that you can use some kind of technology to change things but you can't. Standing desks don't do anything, standing…

> This is complete garbage

Citation? Because there are a lot of studies on the positive impact of exercise. And there are plenty of very healthy people that spend most of the day sitting but implement spaced exercise plans.

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